Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-08-19
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

that bother US. One yellOW ,JdOh0V
at a camp-meeting wllruin whole
sermon.
An Alabama youth has been
made crazy by the cigarette bSsi-
ness. He probably had a cigar
cite and could not find match.
A man in Pittsburg drinks crude
petroleum. 1t will be sad day for
him if the old.tashioned ideas about
future punishment are true.
Postmaster General Villas is
about to change the color Of the
two.cent stamp. Another great
reform in the postal service!
If there IS one thing more con-
spicious than another about the
Roanoke platform, it is the fact
that while it processes great love
for the workingmen 1t really pledges
them nothing.-RickmoHd Truth,
Qnd.)
Kentucky cast the largest vote it
has ever polled at last election and
gave its smallest Democratic major
lty. The Free.trade plank in the
next Democratic platform will be
carefully concealed by a Protection
imitation.
Petitions are being generally cir
culated throughout the State call
ing for a State convention of the
prohibition party. Stanton will
probably be selected as the place
for the convention, and it will be
held early in September.
Mrs. Langtry wears a bathing
suit of black, trimmed with gold
braid, when enjoying the surf at
Long Branch. She dives through
the pillows with grace and vigOr,
and swims out to the end Of the
iron pier.
The Macon Telegraph Dem. says:
at seems to us that not enough at
tention has been paid to the fact
that the old.fashioned Democratic
barbecue had both Of lis eyes black
ened, its nose smashed and its left
ear chewed of in the recent Ken
lucky catastrophe.
For a man who is considered the
least dangerous OF all candidates,
Mr.. Blaine seems to cause the Dem
Ocrats more anxiety than all others
combined. There is not another
public man whose movements are
followed more closely, and whose
utterauces attract more attention
than those of"the man from Maine.7
Within the last few years more
people have been killed by railroad
disasters than have fallen in some
great battles. The loss Of life In
that way has been perfectly fear
full and seems to be weekly on the
increase. Can no preventive be
found for such shocking loss of hu-
man lite
That able exponent Of Georgia
Democracy, the Augusta Chronicle,
warns Frank Hurd that his Free
trade speeches in Ohio will merely
increase the Republican vote; but,
true as the statement is, it will
hardly prevent the Jealous Hurd
from taking his threatened plunge.
Rule or ruin is the policy Of the
Free trade Democrats, and we OBJ
serve that so far it has been princi-
pally ruin.
According to the Chicago Trib-
me go murders we're committed in
this country during the month OF
July. This exceeds any monthly
total for years. 1t is bad show
ing. Perhaps the weather was
partly to blame tor it. Perhaps, as
the Pittsburg Chronicle sugge SITS,
the laxity of justice in murder cases
had something to do with it. At
any rate, the record is deplorable.
Mr.. Charles Gay, of Albemarle
county, was seriously wounded by
Adam Price, while experimenting
some work on the county road, neal
North Garden, recently. Mr.. Gay
reprOyed Price for coming to work
late. Angry words ensued, and
Price seized a pick and made an
assault upon Gay, wOunding him
on the head severely and it is fear
ed fatally.
The Ohio penitentiary, which was
opened in 1884, has to date contain
ed 10000 different individuals
None of the keepers or prisoners OF
the first year are now alive. The
Virginia penitentiary was opened
for the reception ofvisitOrs in 1900.
About 1000 different persons have
found refuge within its walls, in
Guiding Aaron Burr, Vice President
of the United States, during his
trial for treason in Richmond.
John Clay, the only remaining
son of Henry Clay, died at bis farm
near Lexington, KY, on the 10th
instant. While giving some in.
structions to the wOrkmen fixing a
pump he fell dead, without any
premonltion, of heart disease. Mr.
Clay was &C years old. He had nc
children, He possessed but few ol
the characteristics of his illustriOus
father, being plain farmer, devOt
ing much time to raising thorough